Jensen Huang: There's hardwork and then there's insanely hardwork.

Larry Ellison: Focus relentlessly on the most important goal. Forget everything else.

Smart people write

Sage advice from Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar)

“Steve Jobs had a talent for spotting markets full of second-rate products.”

“If you know your business from A to Z, there’s no problem you can’t solve.”

Residential solar in the US will be an enormous growth category going forward: 1) clear guidance from BBB 2) clear guidance from POTUS EO 3) increasing traditional electricity generation prices from utilities 4) degrading grid reliability because of maintenance OPEX 5)

78 short ideas from Steve Jobs:

Clarity comes from action.

How Sam Altman hires:

Charlie Munger on Sam Walton’s very shrewd strategy: “He also had a very interesting competitive strategy in the early days. He was like a prizefighter who wanted a great record so he could be in the finals. So what did he do? He went out and fought 42 palookas. And the

I am (slowly) re-reading the Tolkien legendarium (of which Lord of the Rings is a small part). The whole body of work is so incredible and there's nothing else like it... it dilutes other worlds of fiction. Wait - your story doesn't have a comprehensive history/mythology spanning

Advice from Rockefeller: “Hire talent as found, not as needed”

.Naval on success and happiness:

tell me again about how locked in you are

Whop is now officially independent from Stripe. What this means for anybody running a business on Whop: > Orchestration through multi-PSPs is now available (lifts your revenue by 5 - 10%) > Sellers can get paid out in nearly every country via local banks, BTC, or stablecoins

This is still the best interview I’ve ever been a part of. Patrick doesn’t tell you the topics in advance. You have to be perpetually prepared.

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Michael Jordan:

GPT-5 pro is starting to develop new mathematics! I'm hearing similar stories in other scientific domains like physics too, can't wait to share!